Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-30
ALTOGETHER LOVELY.
Our Country Must be Seen to be Appre-
ciated-wonderful Resources.

ALiOGETHER LOfEL
Our Country Must be Seen to be Appre-
ciated-Wonderful Resources.
! People can successfully lie about almost
everything but when it comes to soil and
climate, that is something which speaks Ter
itself laudations cannot improve it. con-
domination has no effect upon it. A man
who lives forever in one locality, who
knows no other, is satisfied with his lot,
and in his estimation it is the best IN the
world. The Esquimaux is happy in his
Greenland home he would not exchange
one of his ice fields for an orange grove IN
Los Angeles, with cable-road thrown IN.
The individual who has lived IN Southern
California any length of time, and those
who have recently moved to that thriving
section from the northern portion OF the
Mississippi valley or the oYercrowded sec
ton along the Atlantic eaboard, are de-
| lighted with its excellent climate and the
fertility of its soil. So much superior IS 1t
to anything heretofore seen or enjoyed by
them, that they are unwilling to listen for
a moment TO any one who says that IN an
other section is to be found country It's
! equal in every respect, its superior IN many
|
1t is an undisputed fact that no man who
visits Northern California, who thoroughly
investigates its soil, climate and produc-
tons,
ITS MANY AND SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES,
Notes its immense rivers, its numerous
smaller ones, its inexhaustible timber belts.
the cheap price at which lands can be pur-
| chased and homes ACQUIRED, will never To-
cate in Southern California. The south
deserves all she has attained in her I'M
precedented boom. Her people are reap
ing rich and well-earned reward for their
untiring efforts in advertising their section.
They have a great country, they appre-
ciated that fact, and were determined that
| the whole world should know it. Thou
sands of dollars was spent in disseminating
this information they " cast their bread
upon the waters and in return they have
captured the entire bakery" So thor
oughly were they imbued with this idea
of advertising, that even their representa-
tives in the Assembly could not discuss
CHAMBERS, without taking advantage of
their speech to extol the beauties of their
section. Its skies put Italy's in the shade,
its soil was more fertile than that on the
banks of the Nile, its flowers of sweeter
perfume than those that grew in Paradise.
its birds were of brighter plumage and its
butterflies had more expanse of wings than
those that fitted in the Garden of Eden.
Assemblymen Knox and Briefly, who
ably represented Los Angeles county in the
last Legislature, thus extolled their county
They were often reminded by members
from the north that they were making a
mistake. That the Sacramento Valley and
its contiguous foothills could see Los An
geles and. go it few better" Since the ad-
journment of the Legislature, these two
gentlemen
HAVE TARR1ED N THIS SECTION,
And so thoroughly has the conceit been
taken out of them that their return to Los
Angeles is doubtful, and if they do go back
to their constituents it would be simply to
say good-by to them, for they have seen
the error of their ways and have become
converted to this section.
Assemblyman Knox returned to this
city yesterday from Chico, where he had
gone with the committee appointed to Sc
leet a site for the Normal School for North
ern California. He was the most delighted
man that has been seep in these parts for
many days. His enthusiasm was at a
bubbling-over point. The adjectiyes learned
in extolling the southern country were in
sufficient to describe what he had seen in
Yuba, Butte and Suffer counties. Such an
enthusiasm is never witnessed among our
own people. Such country he had never
seen. Such immense fields of waving
grain, such extensive orchards, such
streams of water, such inexhaustible belts
of timber, and the prices at which all were
held, were to him so extremely low that
his admiration knew no bounds, and his
establishment had reached point where it
was paralyzed. Chico, he said, was the
MOST RAvIsHINGLY BEAUTIFUL TOWN
He ever saw, the embryo city of the West
ern empire. There was nothing in the
State, either north or south, that could com
pare with it in beauty as for General Bid |
wells ranch, it was the finest in the world |
The thirty mile drives through fields of |
grain and blooming orchards. over scores |
of crystal streams with pebbly bottoms, |
through groves of mammoth oak, were
simply 10 him indescribable. While the |
south was all they claimed for it; while II |
was good place for emigrants to spend |
wealth they had acquired elsewhere, Mr.
Knox frankly admitted that if friend of
his from the East desired to know of him
the most favored spot in California, the
best place to invest in q home, he should
certainly have to advise him to locate in the
fertile valley of the Sacramento, on the
banks of the American, the Feather or the
Euba, or in the luxuriant foothills of the
northern citrus belt, teeming with growths
of the choicest timber, ripping with crys-
tai streams. inhabited by the most humane,
hospitable. and big-hearted people in the
world. The trouble with these people, Mr.
Knox added, is that they live in paradise;
they are not aware of it and hence don't
know how to appreciate it.